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ABSTRACT
An absolute of ten (10) beds apparent at the Ekosodin/Evbuomore were acquired and studied. These beds accord to the Benin Formation of the Niger Delta Basin. Sieve analyses were agitated out on them, with the after-effects advised and the mean, accepted deviation, skewness and kurtosis calculated. These calculations were acclimated to adapt the provenance, depositional action and ambiance of deposition. The beds mainly accommodate quartz, feldspar and detrital bits absolute their ablaze and metamorphic origin. The after-effects announce that the atom admeasurement were accomplished to average to actual base sand; poor to actual moderately able-bodied sorted. The after-effects of the mineral aggregation based on the allotment of quartz, feldspar and bouldered fragment acknowledge that the beds are quartz arenite, subarkose, arkose and bouldered arkose. Atom sizes are mostly average to coarse, with some accomplished grains in Bed 5. Atom appearance is mostly angular and subrounded, with few angled and sub angular. The ethics acquired from the accepted aberration for the beds advance abreast moderately ablebodied sorted to ailing sort. The allocation appearance that the ability of the bed samples ambit from adolescent (BED 3, 4 and 8) to submature (BED 1, 5 and 7) to complete (BED 2, 6, 9 and 10). The Bivariant artifice of across-the-board skewness adjoin across-the-board accepted aberration indicates that the depositional action that led to the degradation of the beds is fluvial (river systems) suggesting a low activity of busline of the sediments as able-bodied as bank sediments. Economic accent the bank serve as the capital aquifer in Benin Formation. The affluence of quartz makes it a abeyant for use in bottle making. The bank are mined/excavated and acclimated in architecture viz; accurate making, moulding of blocks, etc. My suggestions for added studies are, thus: More abundant abstraction should be done with morphoscopic and petrographic assay to ascertain the minerals present in traces. Environmental studies should be done in the breadth beneath abstraction to ascertain the attendance of any abundant minerals that is a abeyant bloom hazard to the subsurface water.
